• Dementia and Alzheimer's disease impact many people and very few clinicians have the expertise to deal with the unique issues of aging with or caring for someone with a cognitive impairment. Being faced with a diagnosis of dementia can be overwhelming and confusing. Doctors don't always have the time to walk you through the disease process and ...
  • “We fly up here once a year, every December — we’ve been doing it for 13 years now — just to come to the Ferry Building. We love it so much,” says Ann Millar of Huntington Beach, also weighed down with armloads of bags from various merchants. “It’s such a special place. We love the food, the empanadas at El Porteño. Oh, and the ...
  • I hope in the next year or so we’ll see movement, but there’s no silver bullet. Nothing happens overnight.” As mayor of the Southern California surf-hub of Huntington Beach, Erik Peterson isn’t so sure about Newsom’s housing strategy. “I’m not a fan,” says Peterson, whose city Newsom sued early in his tenure as governor for ...
  • The driver then climbed out of the car, crossed over the bed and left through a window, a resident said. Huntington Beach police responded to reports of a crash near Florida Street and Altamar Drive just past 10 p.m., Lt. Brian Smith said. Theodore Sharshan told a videographer at the scene that his brother had just gone into the bedroom at the ...
  • San Diego Union-Tribune on MSN.com
    Last year, she received about 300 letters and answered every one with help from a small team of volunteers. Bruckner, 40, grew up in a Huntington Beach apartment where money was tight, so they didn’t have many lights or decorations and sometimes couldn’t afford a Christmas tree. “Instead, my mom would always drive us around the community ...
  • Orange County Register
    HUNTINGTON BEACH — Servite wrestler Josh Medina owns the Mann Classic. The Friars’ 138-pound senior pinned Buchanan’s Kyler Lake in the championship match Saturday at Marina High School to win the Mann Classic for the fourth consecutive year. Medina won three of his four matches by pins and won a match by technical fall in the two-day ...
  • A Huntington Beach man is among seven people who were convicted Friday in federal court in Santa Ana for their roles in a decades-long fraud scheme that authorities say bilked more than 50,000 victims out of tens of millions of dollars. The scheme to illegally switch printer and toner customers to Culver City-based business IDC Servco dates to ...
  • The scene makes people uncomfortable — but that’s the point, writes columnist Sandy Banks. Clean energy crossroads. Power plants in Redondo Beach, Huntington Beach, Long Beach and Oxnard have become part of an early battleground in an increasingly urgent debate: How much natural gas does California need on its power grid, and for how long?
  • Orange County Register
    The driver then climbed out of the car, crossed over the bed and left through a window, a resident said. Huntington Beach police responded to reports of a crash near Florida Street and Altamar Drive just past 10 p.m., Lt. Brian Smith said. Theodore Sharshan told a videographer at the scene that his brother had just gone into the bedroom at the ...
  • Also found guilty of mail fraud were James Milheiser, 53, of Huntington Beach; Leah Johnson, 54, of Ignacio, Colorado; Jonathan Brightman, 52, of Westlake Village; and Francis Scimeca, 54, of Woodland Hills. Found guilty of conspiracy to commit mail fraud was Tammi Williams, 44, of Chino Hills and Sharon Virag, 44 of West Hills. Another 14 ...
  • Orange County Register
    The driver then climbed out of the car, crossed over the bed and left through a window, a resident said. Huntington Beach police responded to reports of a crash near Florida Street and Altamar Drive just past 10 p.m., Lt. Brian Smith said. Theodore ...
  • L.A. Sat., 3 and 7 p.m.; next Sun., 1 and 5 p.m. $40-$166. (800) 745-3000. nutcracker.com The Nutcracker Coast City Ballet performs. Huntington Beach Historic Theater, 1905 Main St., Huntington Beach. Fri., 7 p.m.; Sat., 2 p.m. $22-$26. (714) 963-9771. coastcityballet.com The Nutcracker Pacific Festival Ballet performs with guest dancers from ...
  • Elected officials focused on the big issues facing Orange County cities now and in the future at a State of the County address Friday, with talk of homelessness, the opioid crisis, workforce development and adapting to California’s economic and climate future taking center stage at the Pacific City shopping center in Huntington Beach.
  • Orange County Register
    Just weeks before Huntington Beach-based reggae-rock band Dirty Heads embarked on a summerlong co-headlining tour with 311 back in July, Dirty Heads guitarist Dustin “Duddy” Bushnell decided to explore the world of podcasting. As someone who travels a lot for work, Bushnell said he’d become a fan of listening to “The Joe Rogan ...
  • Vikings coach Chris Rasmussen said that Marina is in the midst of a rebuilding process, but senior Mike McCoy also made the Masters Meet at 120 pounds a year ago. Huntington Beach appears to be a program on the rise under fifth-year coach John Morgan. The Oilers placed third as a team at the Costa Mesa Classic and eighth in the Cossarek Classic.
  • WBUR
    And, so, no offers, no looks." Jon says there were some good junior college teams that wanted him. But the one that got his attention was called Golden West in nearby Huntington Beach. "Golden West could barely field a team," Jon says. "And they were 0-30 — they hadn’t won a game in three years." Jon thought of something a coach had told ...
  • Spreading seasonal spirit, glitz and glamour, Slater's 50/50 restaurants in Anaheim Hills and Huntington Beach are serving up a most-festive burger, decked out with a 24-karat, gold-dusted brioche bun - an edible glam-slam on its limited-time, "Ugly Sweater Christmas" menu. Likely Ebenezer Scrooge-approved, the "NYE Ball Drop 24 Karat Burger ...
  • Orange County Register
    Also found guilty of mail fraud were James Milheiser, 53, of Huntington Beach; Leah Johnson, 54, of Ignacio, Colorado; Jonathan Brightman, 52, of Westlake Village; and Francis Scimeca, 54, of Woodland Hills. Found guilty of conspiracy to commit mail fraud was Tammi Williams, 44, of Chino Hills and Sharon Virag, 44 of West Hills. Another 14 ...
  • Members of the traditional dance group Las Inditas dance next to the La Virgen Maria altar during La Virgen de Guadelupe procession in Huntington Beach on Thursday. The streets were lit up with home altars, traditional food and dancing from Las Inditas from Pueblo, Mexico. (Don Leach / Staff Photographer) Huntington Beach residents gathered in ...
  • The Irvine City Council voted Tuesday to move toward establishing a community choice aggregation, sometimes referred to as community choice energy, and will invite Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Tustin to join. Forming a CCA enables local officials to choose what kinds of energy to buy for their communities. Participating ...